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Tango0131 Oct 2019 10:02 p.m. PST

"Story begins in Virginia in 1864 and ends in a New Brunswick driveway in 2011


After the slaughter at the Battle of the Crater, fought in Virginia 155 years ago today, two officers — one Union and the other Confederate — struck up an unusual friendship that reverberates in New Brunswick even now through a gold-topped ebony cane.

John Beaton of Island View, on the outskirts of Fredericton, grew up hearing the story from his Uncle Winky, the family historian…"
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Choctaw01 Nov 2019 7:51 a.m. PST

That's very cool story.

Tango0101 Nov 2019 1:07 p.m. PST

Happy you like it my friend!. (smile)


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DOUGKL03 Nov 2019 11:53 a.m. PST

Good story.

COL Scott ret07 Nov 2019 12:25 a.m. PST

very cool at multiple levels. Thank you Armand

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